The Allergic Shoe-Maker

I am currently reading a new biography of William Carey. It is by John Appleby, and it is called I Can Plod: William Carey and the Early Years of the First Baptist Missionary Society (London: Grace Publications, 2007). Two facts of Carey's early life are intriguing to me. First, I was unaware that he was allergic to sunshine. Second, and I did know this, that before he went on the mission field he was a shoe-maker (leather worker) and a part-time pastor. What is interesting about those two facts is, "is it not surprising that someone allergic to sunshine and being a leather worker as well should have been sent by Providence to spend a lifetime in India where the former is constant ant the latter is a trade of the despised lower caste?" God does not do things in the manner of men; we would consider Carey, in our day of assessing "gifts", as perhaps one who would be unfit for such misssionary service. God knows better, and, indeed, by using Carey that way he did only brings more glory and honor to His own name.